The State Emergency Service (SES) took more than 1,500 calls from assistance in the 24 hours to midnight (AEST) on Wednesday, state duty officer Jeff Cartwright said.

More than 800 of those calls came from the Melbourne metropolitan area.

The hardest hit SES units were at Eltham, Knox and Lilydale, in the city's east. The latter had 340 distress calls alone on Tuesday.

"We've been really fortunate, while we have had a lot of building damage but there hasn't been anything too serious," he told AAP.

"We haven't had to relocate any families and we have no reports of any serious injuries from trees coming down."

Gusts up to 128km/h hit Avalon airport, west of Melbourne, at 4.50pm (AEST).

Those eastern areas hit by high winds on Tuesday have copped a battering from a series of similar wind events throughout August, Mr Cartwright said.

"Some of our SES volunteers and the volunteers from the Country Fire Authority in those areas have been out for the past two or three weekends (clearing storm damage) and it's really taking its toll, so I'd like to thank them for their tremendous work," he said.